The Independent-News, Volume 105, Number 50, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 May 1980 — Page 4

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- THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS - MAY 22, 1980

| EDITORIALS

WHAT IF ... ? Monday, May 26, is Memorial Day, 1980. Over the years this day, set aside to honor those who in different time and for different causes, answered the call to give to our people the privilige of living in a free world as they gave of their time, their lives and their futures to make this all possible in the true name of “An American’’, It is no secret that thousands gave up their lives fighting a war or wars they didn’t want to participate in, others returned home wounded and maimed from the battles they fought. And still there were others who had their entire lives changed even though they returned home safely because they picked up the arms and went off to service to defend “their” country. The setting aside of a day to remember . . . and pay tribute to those who did serve their country, is a very easy thing to overlook. We, as selfish, greedy people, often think .more of the “day off” with the plans to do other things than we do the the real reason this day is set aside to remember. Over the years it has gone from Decaration Day to Memorial Day and as the living patterns continue at a faster and faster pace each year, the remembrance of those who gave so much, often bypass us completely as we go about our own seperate ways. It make one wonder as we now read and hear in the news about those who are being asked to register for a selective service program again, where we would be if the many who gave so much, many the supreme sacrifice of their lives, had taken the same approach to the subject of serving their country. It can easily be imagined that many had the feeling inside that they didn’t want to serve, many did everything to keep from going, and yet the large majority accepted their responsibilities and marched off to war, some to never return again. . Had it not been for those who were willing,, had it not been for those who paid in one way or another, had it not been for the families and loved ones left at home who also accepted this obligation even though many .were to lose husbands, fathers, sons, etc., where would we be today? We certainly wouldn’t, be ready to embark on a “holiday” where we could do as we pleased. We very possibly wouldn’t be enjoying the freedom we know today in all phases of life. We wouldn’t, be citizens of the greatest country in the world despite the current times which have caused a problem to many but which will pass in a cycle as it always has. We wouldn’t be in a situation where we have the opportunity to pick our leaders and those who will fashion our futures from the governing standpoint both on a national^ state and local basis. What a difference we would have if these thousands of men over the years during World War I, during. World War 11, during the Korean Conflit, and . during the Vietnam situation, had said no, I won’t.go, it isn’t.right for them to make me do something I don’t want to do. If it wasn’t for those who gave so much, these young people of today wouldn’t, even know what the word peace meant.. The privilige to live in our great country of today is taken for granted and not realized by many that it was such men as their fathers, grandfathers, uncles, etc., that made it all possible by their willingness to defend, their country and. offer their lives for the right to remain free and . pass this on to the future generations.. Sometime on Monday, regardless of where you are or what you are doing,, give thought and give thanks to the many who did make this sacrifice whether it be with their lives, with their bodies or just with their time and minds to help keep us free. R^emembe^^ WHEN... (TAKEN FROM THE FILES OF THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS)

1975 The North Liberty High School athletes and cheerleaders will be honored at a carry-in dinner on Tuesday. May 27, in the high school cafeteria. Sam Smith, sports announcer for WSBT-TV. South Bend, will be the featured speaker for the evening. The 1975 Baccalaureate and Commencement at John Glenn High School will be held Sunday, May 25, at 2:00 p.m. Gregory Alan Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Davis, and Margaret Lorene Eash, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Eash, North Liberty. have been named valedictorian and Salutatorian, respectively, for the 1975 graduating class of North

Liberty High School. The John Glenn High School drama Club will present its spring production of the rib-tickling comedy “No Time For Sergeants” on Friday and Saturday, May 23 and 24 at 8:00 p.m. each evening in the auditorium of the school. 1970 The Beaver Creek Wesleyan Church, located two miles east of North Liberty, on Highway 4, was organized May 28. 1870 by Rev. Samuel Gettig. The church has served the North Liberty area for 100 years. Since the organization of the church three buildings have been built. The first church was a wood frame building and was used until the summer of 1944 when a

new building was built directly behind the old structure. In the fall of 1963. a need was felt for the remodeling of the church and restrooms were added with an addition on the front. The present sanctuary being completed in the spring of 1968, with the old sanctuary being used as the educational unit. The Board of School Trustees of tfie Polk-Lincoln-Johnson School Corporation, Walkerton, announces the appointment of Mr. Edward Powell, as superintendent of schools. He will assume his new position on July 1. At the market fresh picnic pork roast was selling for 39 cents a pound; smoked ham at 59 cents a pound; center cut slices of ham at 99 cents a pound; pork tenderettes at 89 cents a pound; mixed bean salad at 59 cents a pound; smoked sausage at 99 cents a pound; franks at 69 cents a pound; five cans of Libby's whole kernel corn in butter sauce for $1.00; seven 303 size cans of Van Camp's pork and beans for $1.00; six packages of Royal gelatin for 39 cents; a gallon of Borden's one percent milk for 69 cents; coffee rich at 19 cents a pint; 20 pounds of Maine potatoes for 99 cents and a dozen egg rolls for 45 cents. Plas/Steel Products, Inc., Walkerton, has accepted an invitation from the U. S. Department of Commerce to display its sports and outdoor recreational equipment at the Outdoor Life-USA Show held in connection with the annual Stockholm Trade Fair in Sweden. May 20-25. 1965 Fifty-nine senior boys and girls will end their high school days with two very impressive and beautiful services this coming week as the Walkerton High School Baccalaureate and Commencement services will be held on Sunday and Tuesday. May 23 and 25. St. Patrick Grade School will have its commencement exercises for 22 eighth-graders on Sunday. Mav 23. at 2:00 p.m. in the school hall. Tyner High School will graduate 39 seniors on Monday. May 24. Boys in the 13-15 age bracket interested in playing baseball are asked to meet with Richard Kickbush on Monday. May 23. at 6:00 p.m. in the park. This is to form a Babe Ruth League for the summer. 1960 At the market boiled ham was selling for 85 cents a pound; wieners at two pound packages for 89 cents; bacon at 49 cents a pound; barbecued chicken, each $1.39; potatoes, 10 pounds for 59 cents; pork cutlets at 59 cents a pound; boiling beef at 29 cents a pound; rib steaks at 59 cents a pound; chuck roast at 45 cents a pound; and beef stew meat at 59 cents a pound. An historic Commencement was audienced Wednesday evening at perhaps the last graduating class to come out of the present school building in North Liberty, received its diplomas from trustee Linder A. Williams. “We've been expecting it to happen for ten years or more," said Mrs. William Peterson, of Roosevelt Road, this week, “and now it's happened." The thing that happened was a right rear wheel and tire from a half ton pickup truck which left the truck as it was passing the Peterson Refrigeration Sales Shop, crashed through a big plate glass window, striking a freezer unit on the display floor damaging it to the extent of $50.00. The truck belonged to Russ Garage. of North Liberty. Miss Dorothy Walsh won the state essay contest and received a plaque from Claude York from the National Employees Security Division. 1950 Delegates to the convention of the Indiana Federation of Woman’s Clubs, held in French Lick, last week, returned with laurels heaped upon their heads. Mrs. Orrin Hiler was elected vice-president of the Junior Division of Woman’s

Clubs of the state and Mrs. Wayne Burch received second prize for the scrapbook she has compiled for the Junior Club this year. Prof. Orville Foster. South Bend, will be guest organist Sunday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. when the Tracy Methodist Church will dedicate the new Hammond Electronic organ which was recently installed. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE In response to Mr. Steven Crane's letter to the “Voice" in “The Independent-News". I must take exception to his views concerning our Fire Department and their upcoming smoker. As a resident and a property owner of Koontz Lake I have a right to say our Fire Department. As you are neither. I fail to see how you can even suggest how to run our affairs. 1 happen to be quite friendly with some of the members of the department and if there was to be a stag film I would know about it. You admit it was a rumor and that's just what it is. a rumor. As to the alcoholic beverages, there will be beer served, we also have three bars here where beer is sold, should we also close them up? All are well kept and run under State control, also the Fire Department will be licensed to serve. As far as the gambling is concerned. the smoker will be closed to minors and I cannot see where a friendly game of poker or black jack will ruin our community. One is not forced to indulge in the gambling nor beer drinking. The smoker is merely to raise money for some much needed items for the department. These firemen are all volunteers and certainly don’t make much money and yet they are on call day and night perhaps to save your home and mine. I think each and every home owner here at Koontz Lake should go along with the department in any of their projects and support them in everyway. This of course would leave you out as you are not a resident here so you can stay on your side of the tracks and we ll do the same for you. William E. Boelkins Rt. 3, Box 356 Jack Rosenberry Rt. 5. Box 320 Koontz Lake IN FLANDERS FIELD by Colonel John McCrae A Canadian officer killed in WWI In Flanders Field the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row. That mark our place, and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly. Scarce heard amid the guns below. We arc the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow. Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders Fields. Take up our quarrel w ith the foe; To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. It ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders Fields. AMERICA’S ANSWER by R. W. billiard "Resst ye in peace, ye Flanders' dead. The fight that you so bravely led. We’ve taken up. And we will keep True faith with you who lie asleep. With each a cross to mark his bed. And poppies blowing overhead. Where once his own life blood ran red. In Flanders' Field. "Fear not that ye have died for naught; The torch you threw to us we caught. Ten million hands will hold it high, And Freedom's light will never die.

Wc'vc learned the lesson that ye taught. In Flanders Fields. Knowing him many summers dead. Do we remember the way he said. "If Ye break faith, we shall not sleep. Though poppies blow?" God. do we keep the faith. And hold the torches high They flung to us? Or docs each lie in Flanders Fields And turn and toss Finding no rest beneath his cross? Orville Easterday Unit 189 American Legion Auxiliary UREY GIRLS TAKE STH AT MARSHALL CO. MEET The Urey Middle School girls track team finished sth at the Mar shall County track meet at Triton on Wednesday. May 14. Culver earned first place with 99 points. Triton came in second with 88 points. Bremen third with 68' 2. La Ville fourth with 59*/2, Urey fifth with 47 points, and Argos sixth with 38 points. Alma Albertsen, from Urey, earned the girls indi vidual high point trophy by winning three events. The results were as follows: 75 meter hurdles — I. Ellinger (T); 2. Taylor (A); 3. Town (B); 4. Needier (L). Time: 14.1 1600 meter run —l. Fisher (T); 2. Rickman (C); 3. Norton (C); 4. Jacobson (C); 5, Ingle (L); 6. Yarian(B). Time 6:22.9 50 meter dash — I. Strycker 2. Emmons (L); 3. Cramer (L); 4. Stoudcr (B); 5. Fritter (U); 6. Salinas (C). Time :08.2 400 meter dash —l. Strycker (C); 2. Hylanc (C); 3, Taylor (A); 4. Mitchell (T); 5. Mover (B); 6. Miller (U). Time 1:07.0 100 meter dash —l. Alma Albertsen (U); 2. Byunk (Y); 3. Cramer (L); 4. Emmons (L); 5. Lewis (C); 6. Stoudcr (B). Time :13.8 800 meter run —l. Woodward (C); 2. Yoder (Y); 3. Zimmerman (B); 4. Clark. (B); 5. Ingal (L); 6. Jacobson (C). Time 2:48.2 200 meter dash —l. Alma Albertsen (U); 2. Brunk (T); 3. Zehner (C); 4. Strycker (C); 5. An drews (L); 6. Court (L). Time :28.4 400 meter relay —l. LaVille (Cramer. DeLanghe. Schoolman. Emmons); 2. Bermen; 3. Culver; 4. Triton; 5. Urey (Golubski, Parker. Miller Wise); 6. Argos. Time :56.5 800 meter relay —l. Urey (Fritter. Zckucia. Creed, Alma Albertsen); 2. Triton; 3. Culver; 4, LaVille; 5, Bremen; 6. Argos. Time 1:58.0 Softball throw —l. O'Dell (A); 2. Shidaker (C); 3. Feldman (T); 4, Banic (T); 5. Zckucia (U); 6. Kares (B). Distance 162'2" Shot put —l. Kares (B); 2. Banic (T); 3. Gustafasson (L); 4. Thompson (C); 5. Gebert (T); 6. Bayne (C). Distance 28'2’/i" Long jump — I. Strang (B); 2. Wallace (A); 3. Keyser (B); 4. Clark (A); 5, Needier (L); 6. DeLanghe (L). Distance UM'/i" High jump — I. Zckucia (U); 2. Feldman (Y); 3, Luttman (B); 4. Cibak (C); 5. Andrews (B); 6 Munger (L). Height 4’10" + Keep Red Ciwss ready; YOUR DOGNEEDS VITAMINS, TOO. ASerpeati tr>e peTane uewle C«np4H V « ot AH Hobini Co Richmond. Vngmi» 23230